# positions[].label
Associate Professor of International Affairs

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Bush School of Government and Public Service

# overview
A background in African area studies undergirds my research on African media and film under globalization, with a specialization in Ghana. cultural production. I have written on commercial movies from Ghana and Nigeria (Nollywood); African literature, and African cinema. My current book project, tentatively titled African Energy Worlds: African Cinema of the Anthropocene, puts energy humanities scholarship in conversation with African film and media and aims to orient readers to methods of analysis centered on the materialities and infrastructures of energy. I am more and more interested in engaging with energy and environmental sciences to make a case for the significance of humanities scholarship in addressing the urgent crisis caused by catastrophic climate warming, the worst effects of which are lived by people in the global South.

# hrJobTitle
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)

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English with certificate in Africana Studies

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University of Notre Dame - (Notre Dame, Indiana, United States)

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Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)

# publications[].label
At an intersection of humanism and postmodernism: A feminist reading of Ellen Kuzwayo's 'Call me Woman'

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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NOLLYWOOD STUDIES

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Amma Darkos The Housemaid and the Gendering of Novel and Nation

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Women, Melodrama, and Political Critique: A Feminist Reading of Hostages, Dust to Dust, and True Confessions

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Close-Up: Nollywood-A Worldly Creative Practice Introduction: Nollywood-An Archive of African Worldliness

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The Conscript: A Novel of Libyas Anticolonial War

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African Video Movies and Global Desires A Ghanaian History

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West African VideoMovies and Their Transnational Imaginaries

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Email Scams, Nollywood Movies, and the New African Literary Novel: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance in the Post-Global Age

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5: Transcultural Encounters and Local Imaginaries

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3: Professional Movies and Their Global Aspirations

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Franoise Pfaff, ed. Focus on African Films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 327 pp. Photographs. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

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Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

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Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas

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Restaging the past: The rewriting of The Tale of the Beautiful Daughter by Abrahams, Tutuola, Ogali and Aidoo.

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VIRTUAL ENCOUNTERS IN POSTCOLONIAL SPACES Nollywood movies about mobile telephony

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Troubled men and the women who create havoc: Four recent films by West African filmmakers

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Living Precariously in the African Postcolony: Debt and Labor Relations in the Films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

# publications[].label
A Feminist Reading of Ellen Kuzwayos Call Me Woman

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Restaging the Past: The Rewriting of the Tale of the Beautiful Daughter

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The Entrepreneurial Feminist Subject of New Screen Media from Ghana: Labor, Pleasure, and Power

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Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals

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Contesting authenticities: the emergence of local video production in Ghana

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Introduction: African Popular Videos as GlobalCultural Forms

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Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora

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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Waiting on the Past: African Uranium Futures in Arlit, Deuxieme Paris

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Rosine Mbakam, director. The Two Faces of a Bamilk Woman. 2016. 76 min. French and Bamilk, with English subtitles. Cameroon and France. Icarus Films. $348.

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Fueling automobility: thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms's Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa

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The Materiality of Genre: Analog and Digital Ghosts in Video Movies from Ghana

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
Fulbright Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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Fulbright Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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West African Research Center - (Dakar, Senegal)

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Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)

# organizations[]
Bush School of Government and Public Service

# inTheNews[].label
Texas A&M Names 10 Arts and Humanities Fellows for 2020